Used Car of the Day: Land Rover 109 Pickup

by Tim Healey

Published: February 7th, 2024

used car of the day land rover 109 pickup

Do you like rare old trucks? I like rare old trucks. This Land Rover 109 of indeterminate year and mileage is definitely a rare old truck.

It's right-hand drive and the seller claims it runs and drives well but the brakes need work.

There is some rust on the bulkhead. The seats and lights are on the newer side, and so is the fuel tank. Apparently everything works, including the drivetrain -- but the final words of the listing are a gut punch: "Needs a new chassis."

If this is your cup of tea, you can click here to see more photos of this Massachusetts-based beast.

[Images: Seller]

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Tim Healey

Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.

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Sobhuza Trooper on Feb 07, 2024

Back when I had transfer orders to Swaziland, I would have snapped this up. Just the thing for a bush mechanic to maintain.

I took the Isuzu Trooper instead.

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Lorenzo on Feb 07, 2024

Aren't there restrictions on imports of some older Land Rovers? Is this a legal import, or snuck across the border from Canada on a flatbed and not registered? Massachusetts doesn't require front license plates, but that's a decidedly non-Massachusetts plate on the front bumper.

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- Spreadsheet monkey on Feb 09, 2024
  
  Registration ending in X means this is a 1981 or 1982 car. Plenty old enough to be exempt from import restrictions.
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_the_United_Kingdom
  
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